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ALFA AWUS036NHA Not Loading Up In Raspberry Pi 3

Hello,

I've been trying to get my new ALFA AWUS036NHA to work with my Rpi 3 and yet when I plug it in through a powered usb hub the wifi adapter shows up in lsusb but never in iwconfig or airmon-ng. Apparently it should work without trouble by just plugging it in but that has not been working for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been re-imaging my micro SD for days now.

I am currently running the Kali ARM image: "kali-2017.2-rpi3-nexmon.img"

Here is a sample of code of common commands that requested whenever an issue like this is presented.

I have the following but to no avail, I am certainly willing to try them again if they yield any extra information:

Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y"

Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get dist-upgrade"

Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get install kali-linux-full"

Plugged in the adapter before and after running "apt-get install firmware-atheros"

Plugged in the adapter before and after download and running the raspi-config file supplied by official Raspberry Pi sources to increase the allocated storage space on my SD

Plugged the adapter straight into the Pi, circumventing the powered USB hub

Done all of the above and rebooting whenever possible

Done all of the above and re-imaged and tried a different combinatoin

Done all of the above with a different AWUS036NHA adapter

Tested both adapters on a Desktop VM running Kali 2017.2 64-bit and both worked perfectly.

At this point I would be over the moon if I was told that the AWUS036NHA model was incompatible with the current Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and/or the current supplied image so any response at all is highly appreciated.